Kate Woodside is the Senior Program Coordinator in New Ventures in the Office for Research at Rutgers University. In this position, she supports the NSF funded I-Corps program which helps faculty, staff, students and others spin their tech innovations into possible start-up companies. She also supports the HealthAdvance & TechAdvance programs which award funding to PIs to further their innovations on their way to commercialization. She works on business improvement & standardization projects, as well.
Kate arrived at Rutgers University in 2016 and since then has worked in divisions across the University. Her first position in higher education was on the academic side, in the Materials Science and Engineering department. She then worked in Student Health on the Student Affairs side.
Before arriving at Rutgers in 2016, Kate held different functional positions in for-profit organizations, took on leadership roles at local non-profit organizations, and worked with US Army units and organizations overseas and in the US.
She has proactively sought opportunities to live and work in different countries to expand her world view. To date she has lived and worked on four continents and has studied five languages. She credits this international experience, along with her varied professional background, with being able to see events through a broader lens in order to collaborate with, relate to, and unite various stakeholders and colleagues across vastly different units and functions.
Across this diversity of experiences, she has jumped (or has been thrown) into unknown environments, and in doing so has expanded her ability to adapt to change and to respond creatively to adversity and opportunities.
Kate earned her bachelor’s degree from Boston College in English Literature and her Master of Business Administration from University of Massachusetts-Amherst.